Michael Polanyi Quotes
A free society is regarded as one that does not engage, on principle, in attempting to control what people find meaningful, and a totalitarian society is regarded as one that does, on principle, attempt such control.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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A girl's best friend is her pride.
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I always make my favorite pancakes with milk, and I also add some fruit - like a banana or apple with some cinnamon sprinkled on top. I also sometimes put peanut butter on my pancakes!
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The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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The notion of 'reduce and refine' is one I've pursued. I truly believe that by making things less complex, by finding innovative ways to make sustainability affordable, we can advance the notion that it is possible.
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You don't have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.
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Let us hope that for many it does mean the end of trouble so far as earning a livelihood is concerned, that it means happy and comfortable home living honestly earned. But there are other troubles ahead for her, and plenty of hard work.
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I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it.
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I interact with journalists all the time, and I note how they behave.
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Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.
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The U.K. is so important to me. It's everything - it's my home. I love America, but it's so important for me to be here and be an artist and be well known here.
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I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.
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When I made a big effort in '96 and it is not - I squeezed and I arrested a part of [terroristic groups].
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That's the thing about the script, is that how these people were affected by their decision, and how it could ultimately kill them, and I mean literally.
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A lot of people, I think, harbor some kind of ambition to write a novel - they say, 'One day I'm going to write a novel,' and they maybe find the first three pages quite easy, and then they hit a kind of brick wall, and they think that that brick wall means that they're not a writer.
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A free society is regarded as one that does not engage, on principle, in attempting to control what people find meaningful, and a totalitarian society is regarded as one that does, on principle, attempt such control.
